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Comment to DM automation
Reply YES under a post, get a DM: turn comments on your Facebook and Instagram posts into conversations and leads.
What does it do?
When someone comments on one of your Facebook Page or Instagram posts, a workflow can reply publicly under their comment, send them a private message, hide the comment, tag them as a lead, or anything else workflows can do. The commenter becomes a contact automatically, so follow-ups work like for any other contact.
Setting it up
- Connect your Facebook Page or Instagram account under Settings, then Channels, if you have not already.
- Open Automations and start from the Comment keyword to DM template, or add the Comment on a post trigger to a new workflow.
- Choose which post it runs on: any post, or pick one from the dropdown of your recent posts. You can also narrow it with a keyword filter, for example only comments containing LINK.
- Add your actions: Reply to the comment posts a public reply under it, Send a private reply messages the commenter directly, Hide the comment takes it off the post.
- Activate the workflow and test it by commenting on your own post.
Good to know
- A commenter can get one private reply per comment, a platform rule, so make that message count.
- If your Page was connected before October 2026, reconnect it once under Settings, then Channels, so comment events start arriving.
- Keyword filters match anywhere in the comment text and ignore case.
- Blocked contacts and people on your do-not-contact list never get automated replies.
Still stuck? Email hello@workflowhq.co - a real person replies, usually within a few hours.